Drivers appear to be missing warning signs about the closure of a main road in Hinckley.

Lorries, cars and even a bus have seen making u-turns on Lower Bond Street which has been closed in one direction to allow repair works to a collapsed manhole.

Some drivers have even been seen taking to the wrong side of the road as they reach the closure, travelling into oncoming traffic.

One was even seen coming face-to-face with a bus near the junction with Upper Bond Street.

The road closed from the Atkins Building up the road to the former police station heading out of town on Monday last week (November 13).

Cars have been spotted travelling on the wrong side of the road through the closure on Lower Bond Street outside the Atkins Building

It might not reopen until Friday.

It remains open if you are coming into town from Hollycroft and Upper Bond Street.

Diversion signs and barriers appeared last Monday afternoon.

However many drivers seem to be missing them altogether and either being forced into a u-turn or chancing their luck on the wrong side of the road.

Cars have been spotted travelling on the wrong side of the road through the closure on Lower Bond Street outside the Atkins Building. This car came face-to-face with a bus travelling in the opposite direction.

A spokesman for Severn Trent Water said last week: “We’d like to apologise to anyone affected by the road closure on Lower Bond Street.

“It’s a really big job as the sewer pipe is nearly four metres deep, and so we expect the work to be finished and the road reopened by the end of next week at the latest.”